What IDE/EDITOR do you use for D?

via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 29 22:54:33 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 30 October 2014 at 05:01:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> templates and metaprogramming completely. I was skimming over 
> Google's
> C++ style guide today, for example, and was shocked to discover 
> that
> they discourage the use of templates and frown on 
> metaprogramming, among
> other shocking things (like prohibiting exceptions, using 
> 2-space
> indentation, and other "interesting" things [1]).

The Google cppcon presentation was pretty clear on this, e.g.:

1. The code should be easy to understand at the call site for a 
non-expert. No need to look up the docs. They don't care if code 
is tedious to write, because reading is more important and 
frequent.

2. Exceptions hide error_handling, so they have their own status 
class that force error-handling or explicit "ignore()" to make 
code review easier. C++ exceptions also come with a performance 
penalty.

3. No non-const ref parameters to functions, use pointers. They 
want a visible "&" at call site for output parameters. e.g. 
"read(&var)" so that you don't have to look the function up in 
the docs.

4. They use clang with C++11 and standard libraries.

5. Formatting debates are not interesting. Use automatic clang 
formatting, it is better than most programmers anyway.


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